Okay. That just furthers my point. I have not seen it. I apologize for that.
There are going to be a number of other motions that I suspect people want to put forward. Some of them, I'm confident, will overlap in part, if not in large part, with this motion. What I would suggest is maybe that we take advantage of the subcommittee that was just formed pursuant to the routine motions, that we table all of the proposed motions today and that the subcommittee then review them.
I agree with Mr. Angus's sentiment that we don't want to lose any time and we want to hit the ground running, but I would hate to be in a situation where we adopt a motion and then other members see later that there were other motions they might have thought were things they should have put ahead of, or that they could merge with or do in conjunction with...whatever the case may be.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that there's a solution to this. Rather than going with the first one and not hearing about the other ones, I would propose that we hear all of the motions and then we put those over to the subcommittee. The subcommittee could even.... There's a way to deal with this the first week we come back in the end of January. We could have witnesses ready to go quite soon. I suspect that whatever study we're going to do is going to involve departmental officials. We can have those people queued up to go on whatever route we take.
My last point is that there is some unfinished work from this committee in the last session. When I say “unfinished”, I mean we were within sight of the finish line. There was one report. We had heard all the witnesses. We had started to discuss drafting instructions, but we hadn't finished it. It's a topic that I'm pretty confident Mr. Angus would be interested in. I'm also confident that my Conservative colleagues would be interested in it, because it was actually a study that resulted from a motion from one of their colleagues. That's something else we need to consider. That could be done in pretty short order if we were to adopt that, but that's just one of many.
My suggestion is, perhaps, with the room's consent, that we hear about other motions and then decide how to move forward procedurally thereafter.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.